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JUNE 2020 contest thread (CLOSED)

Hello all! This is the official contest thread!

Read the RULES and HOW-TO posts, stickied in this forum, and get posting! We want to see your amazing travel photos and give you the chance to vote for (the new "LIKE" button on the lower right corner of each post in this forum) your favorites, which is how the winning photo will be chosen!

Let's get clicking!

-The Fodor's Team

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Better to call this the US Residents Travel Phoyo Contest
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Originally Posted by Elizabeth_S
Better to call this the US Residents Travel Phoyo Contest
Anyone is welcome to post photos, but yes, sadly due to legal restrictions we cannot award a prize to non-US residents.
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Originally Posted by ibobi
Anyone is welcome to post photos, but yes, sadly due to legal restrictions we cannot award a prize to non-US residents.
That's really unfortunate.
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The fact that only Americans can win is such a shame. Such a poor decision.
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Old Jun 3rd, 2020, 06:09 PM
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Good scam -- obtain travel photos to illustrate your books and websites for free. How about paying professionals a fair price instead? No, better to appeal to the vanity of amateurs who'll give it away for free -- or the wholesale price of a cheap travel guide. You people are shameless.
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Old Jun 4th, 2020, 09:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Fra_Diavolo
Good scam -- obtain travel photos to illustrate your books and websites for free. . .
It would certainly have been more transparent to put that in the rules post rather than in the fine print where many of us, including me, might not think to look. And it might mitigate feelings of unfairness if photographers were promised notice of their work's use & a copy of any used in print. That would make a difference to me.


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Originally Posted by MmePerdu
It would certainly have been more transparent to put that in the rules post rather than in the fine print where many of us, including me, might not think to look. And it might mitigate feelings of unfairness if photographers were promised notice of their work's use & a copy of any used in print. That would make a difference to me.
The T&Cs of the entire site authorize the same use of any materials posted - text, images, etc. - just like in the photo competition rules. You agreed to these (or their predecessors) when you registered for the forums.

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[QUOTE=Gardyloo;17113180]The T&Cs of the entire site authorize the same use of any materials posted - text, images, etc. - just like in the photo competition rules. You agreed to these (or their predecessors) when you registered for the forums.

I'm not quibbling with the legalities but stand by my suggestion above. It never hurts to make it more clear.
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Originally Posted by Fra_Diavolo
Good scam -- obtain travel photos to illustrate your books and websites for free. How about paying professionals a fair price instead? No, better to appeal to the vanity of amateurs who'll give it away for free -- or the wholesale price of a cheap travel guide. You people are shameless.
Oh for goodness' sake. It's not a scam. This is a standard legal boilerplate so that we can announce the winner at the end and show the photo. It's not going in a book, we have professional photographers for that.
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Originally Posted by ibobi
Hello all! This is the official contest thread!

Read the RULES and HOW-TO posts, stickied in this forum, and get posting! We want to see your amazing travel photos and give you the chance to vote for (the new "LIKE" button on the lower right corner of each post in this forum) your favorites, which is how the winning photo will be chosen!

Let's get clicking!

-The Fodor's Team

A beautiful day at Aiguille du Midi. It takes your breath away with the grandeur of the glaciers and the mountains. There were climbers returning from their glacier hikes. If you look carefully, there was a climber on top of near peak in the picture.
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